Breede River Valley

Wine region

Breede River Valley is a Wine of Origin region of Western Cape in South Africa.

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The map shows the official outline with relief, 3D terrain, slope and exposure, climate and soil.

Key facts

Type: Wine of Origin region
Within: Western Cape
Area: 835,096 ha registered outline
Centre: 33.6476° S, 19.8273° E
Legal basis: Wine of Origin Scheme (Liquor Products Act 60 of 1989); areas published in the Government Gazette and administered by SAWIS.

Outline: Built from the administrative units that contain the area. The legal boundary follows other lines (roads, rivers, farms or altitude), so the real area is smaller.

Where it is

Nearest town: 18 km north of Robertson
Nearest city: 35 km east of Worcester 127,597 people
To the sea: 98 km
Same latitude: Valle de Uco (Argentina), Valle del Maipo (Chile), Clare Valley (Australia), Centro-Este (Uruguay)

Distances from the centre of the place. Towns: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Sea, rivers and lakes: Natural Earth.

Terrain

Elevation: 76–2,219 m
Mean elevation: 654 m

Measured over the whole outline on 130,009 elevation cells of about 254 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.

Inside Breede River Valley · 3

BreedekloofAppellation
RobertsonAppellation
WorcesterAppellation

Sources

geoBoundaries ZAF ADM3 (2020) (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO))

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